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Vintage Classics Weird Fiction is a new series of books bij women of special novels and stories from all over the world. Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction

Amerikaanse thrillers, Horror

Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearfull Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie, review en informatie horrorroman uit 2009 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en kunstenares. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de thriller van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige Audrey Niffenegger. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de horrorthriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie en review

  • “A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story.” (Tatler)
  • “What is really satisfying about this novel, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief , the transforming power of love.” (Daily Telegraph)
  • “An original, outrageous, and throroughly enjoyable ghost story.” (Independent)

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry

Her Fearfull Symmetry

  • Auteur: Audrey Niffenegger (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse horror uit 2009
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 496 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de horrorroman van Audrey Niffenegger

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed.

The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn’t seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

Audrey Niffenegger is on 13 Juni 1963 in South Haven, Michigan in the United States. She is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus recensie, review en informatie roman uit 1984 van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Angela Carter. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel Circusnachten is in 2020 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Orlando.

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus recensie en review

  • “Raunchy, raucous…a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety.” (The Times)
  • “A spellbinding achievement.” (Literary Review)
  • “One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World”

Angela Carter Nights at the Circus

Nights at the Circus

  • Auteur: Angela Carter (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse circusroman uit 1984
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 4,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1984 van de Engelse schrijfster Angela Carter

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe’s capitals, part swan…or all fake?

Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.

De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel Circusnachten is in 2020 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Orlando.

Angela Carter was born on 7 Mai 1940 in Eastbourne, England,. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died on 16 February 1992 in London at the age of 51 from lung cancer.

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Engelse schrijfsters, Engelse thriller, Gothic novel

Marjorie Bowen – Black Magic

Marjorie Bowen Black Magic recensie, review en informatie van de Engelse gothic thriller and novel uit 1909. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de spannende roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Marjorie Bowen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de gothic thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Marjorie Bowen Black Magic recensie en review

  • “A subtle and complex thriller… Just don’t give away its secret.”  (Washington Post)
  • “It was Miss Bowen’s apperent zest that made me want to write. One could not read her without beleiving that to write was to live and to enjoy.” (Graham Greene)

Marjorie Bowen Black Magic

Black Magic

  • Auteur: Marjorie Bowen (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: gothic novel, Engelse thriller uit 1909
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de gothic thriller uit 1909 van Marjorie Bowen

A rediscovered gothic classic with a groundbreaking, gender-nonconforming protagonist at its heart.

‘I do not sin,’ he smiled. ‘I am Sin’

In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, Dirk Renswoude worships the devil.

Then the wind brings the young scholar Thierry to his door. Could this beautiful man share his dark obsession? Under a hushed midnight sky, the pair swear themselves to the black arts, and to one another.

Yet Dirk shies away at the slightest touch. He will not discuss his past. As the duo hex their way across moonlit woodlands and learned cities, it becomes clear that Dirk will stop at nothing to live the life he desires, while concealing one precious secret.

First published in 1909, Black Magic is the remarkable rediscovered tale of a gender-nonconforming rebel.

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Japan, Japanse roman, Japanse schrijfster

Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction

Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Japanse roman uit 2006. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt als Vintage Classics Weird Girls de Engelse vertaling van 金原 ひとみ, de roman van de uit Japan afkomstige schrijfster Hitomi Kanehara. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction recensie en review

  • “Hitomi Kanehara is one of international fiction’s most startling new voices… her anatomisation of a disturbed mind renders every description unique… this autofiction is the most elegant postmodern escape act by a contemporary novelist yet.” (Independent)
  • “Kanehara is an instant star.” (International Herald Tribune)

Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction

Autofiction

  • Auteur: Hitomi Kanehara (Japan)
  • Soort boek: Japanse roman
  • Origineel: 金原 ひとみ (2006)
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Omvang: 224 pagina’s
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Japanse schrijfster Hitomi Kanehara

Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She’s madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control the phrase ‘madly in love’ takes on a more sinister meaning.

Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara’s sensational novel, Autofiction, follows Rin’s life backwards through time from this moment so that we see her when she is eighteen, sixteen and finally fifteen, and a picture of the dark core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually develops.

Hitomi Kanehara was born on 8 August 1983 in Tokyo, Japan. Sheis the author of Snakes and Earrings which won the top Japanese literary award, the Akutagawa Prize. One of the judges, celebrated writer Ryu Murakami, said her book was ‘easily the top choice, receiving the highest marks of any work since I became a member of the selection panel’. The Japanese edition of Snakes and Earrings has since topped bestseller lists and sold over a million copies.

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Gothic novel, Indonesië, Indonesische schrijfster

Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife recensie, review en informatie boek met gothic verhalen van de Indonesische schrijfster. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de Engelse vertaling van het boek met gothic verhalen van de uit Indonesië afkomstige schrijfster Intan Paramaditha. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Intan Paramaditha Apple and Knife recensie en review

  • “Dark, subversive… Here are fairy tales and myths reworked with a feminist bent.” (Tatler)

Intan Paramaditha Apple and knife

Apple and Knife

  • Auteur: Intan Paramaditha (Indonesië)
  • Soort boek: gothic verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Stephen J Epstein
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de Indonesische schrijfster Intan Paramaditha

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.

Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a woman’s body in today’s world.

These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. This is subversive feminist horror at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.

Intan Paramaditha is a writer and academic. Her novel The Wandering (Harvill Secker, Penguin Random House UK), translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein, was nominated for the Stella Prize in Australia and awarded the Tempo Best Literary Fiction Prize in Indonesia, the English PEN Translates Award and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America. She is the author of the short-story collection Apple and Knife and editor of Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets, part of the Translating Feminisms series by Tilted Axis Press. Her essay ‘On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel’ was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie, review en informatie roman over slavernij uit 1991. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics in de reeks Weird Girls de heruitgave van de roman van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijfster Jewelle Gomez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories recensie en review

  • “A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined.” (Guardian)
  • “The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in 1991… Gomez’s characters are rooted in historical reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditonal models of family, identity and literary genre.” (Sarah Waters)
  • “Groundbraking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them – communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.” (Emma Donaghue)

Jewelle Gomez The Gilda Stories

The Gilda Stories

  • Auteur: Jewelle Gomez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: futuristische roman uit 1991, slavernijroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang; 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Winnaar Lambda Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Jewelle Gomez

In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things…

Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men’s clothing and seem to know others’ innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to ‘share the blood’ and live forever. They name her Gilda.

Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women’s suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?

Jewelle Gomez is born on 11 September 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a writer, activist and the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories. Her other publications include The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears and Oral Tradition. Formerly the executive director of the Poetry Center and the American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, she has also worked in philanthropy for many years. She is the former director of the literature programme at the New York State Council on the Arts, the director of Grants and Community Initiatives for Horizon and the President of the San Francisco Library Commission. She lives in San Francisco.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Feministische boeken, Gothic novel, Verhalen

Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper recensie, review en informatie Amerikaanse feministische gothic verhalen uit 1899. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classic Weird Girls de heruitgave van de bundel met feministische gothic verhalen van de schrijfster afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. In 2022 verscheen de Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Het gele behang bij uitgeverij Orlando.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper recensie en review

  • “A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect.” (Maggie O’Farrell)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper

The Yellow Wall-Paper

  • Auteur: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gothic verhalen
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weid Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met gothic verhalen van Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion. There she is barred from her work of writing, denied any visits to friends, and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her – and appears to shift before her very eyes.

This is the tale of a woman driven to the brink and beyond. Here accompanied by Gilman’s key wider stories, The Yellow Wallpaper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror.

De Nederlandse vertaling met als titel Het gele behang in 2022 bij uitgeverij Orlando.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 3 July 1860 in Hartfort, Connecticut. She was a feminist and journalist and author of a number of fiction and non-fiction works. These include Women and Economics (1898), Concerning Children (1900), The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903) and Herland (1915). She is best remembered for her short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which describes the descent of a woman into madness following a ‘rest cure’. Unconventional in many ways, Gilman’s life included two marriages and separation from her nine-year-old daughter, whom she sent to live with her ex-husband and his new wife. She was a Suffragette, a public speaker on social issues and the editor of a number of literary magazines during her career. In 1932, Gilman was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer and, as an advocate of euthanasia, she took the decision to commit suicide. She did this on 17 August 1935 in Pasadena, California,  by taking an overdose of chloroform.

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